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Group site for developer blogs dealing with (usually) .NET, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2010, Office 365, SharePoint Online, and other Microsoft products, as well as some discussion of general programming related concepts.

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I’ve seen quite a few posts in the forums about people wanting to not search the contents of documents. These people for whatever reason were interested in just the title and path being searched. Out of the box, this of course is not possible, but I got to thinking about how this functionality...

I was reading the forums the other day and saw another post in the MOSS Search forum about someone wanting to be able to specify a custom sort order with the CoreResultsWebPart. WildcardSearchWebPart will allow you to specify a static full text sql query or it builds one of its own. The problem...

Since, I have started working with Enterprise Search, I have received many requests looking for ways to improve what we can do with documents. The search results screen in MOSS, as flexible as it is, has always been lacking in features compared to search results of other ECM systems. Common feature requests...

Release 3 of the Wildcard Search Web Part is now available. This minor update fixes a user reported issue where the scope property was not being used. If you are new to the blog, the Wildcard Search web part allows a user to do partial word queries with Enterprise Search (i.e.: searching for red, returns...

I am very glad to see that the Wildcard Search Web Part has been so well received. It's nice to know so many people are getting good use out of it. I have had a number of comments about it regarding what else works with it and what doesn't so I thought I would address them today in a post. We'll...

You may have a case where you want to search for files that were recently modified. Sure, you can use a CAML query to do this, but what if you want to look for recently changed files across multiple content sources? Sure, you can write your own Full Text SQL Query and bind it in a web part, but there...

I have had countless people tell me that they want to be able to do wildcard search in MOSS Enterprise Search using the existing Search Center site templates. The Search Center site template uses keyword query syntax which does not support wildcards. To get wildcards you need to use a full text SQL query...